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Sir Lancelot, Sir Gore & The Damsels in Distress


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So Sir Lancelot and Sir Gore were notified that Lady Lee and Lady Ling were being held by King John Ill in a dungeon and that the intent of the evil king was to feed them to the dragon of that realm.

 

Our two heroes were dispatched at once to rescue these ladies and so they left Camelot with no promise of gold coins nor fiefs and proceeded with only the hope and purpose to do right.

 

And this King John Ill was so struck by their appearance at his gate, having heard of their fame and the glory of their past feats of valor that he invited them into his castle.  And after much discussion, the ladies were released into the knights' custody without the need for battle.

 

And Sir Lancelot and Sir Gore returned to Camelot and were welcomed  and greatly honored for fulfilling their quest.


Euna Lee and Laura Ling are safe at home and in the warm embrace of loved ones and it's hard to feel bad about this. But, since Bill Clinton has a hand in their release, someone's got to step up and naysay the effort, and predictably, that task has fallen to former UN ambassador and noted rage-walrus John Bolton, who says the "Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama." Of course, holding Lee and Ling as prisoners was also a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, insofar as the ravings of a crackpot rogue nations can be held to be significant. If Kim Jong Il bakes a mediocre angel food cake today, North Korea will claim they've achieved a significant propaganda victory.

Of course, no one was negotiating "merely for the sake of it." The negotiations were for the sake of Euna Lee and Laura Ling. You'll note that Bolton never mentions them by name, once. This is not surprising, because that would take actual humanity. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/05/bolton-decries-release-of_n_251697.html

Who is this idiot Bolton anyway?

During the George W. Bush administration, Bolton has been the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (2001-2005) and U.S. Ambassador to the UN (2005-2006). Wiki

A deputy acting for John Bolton told the Associated Press that Mr. Bolton orchestrated the firing of the head of a global arms-control agency in 2002. Jose Bustani, a Brazilian diplomat for the agency, was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors into Baghdad. The former deputy told the AP that Mr. Bolton did not want that to happen because it might help defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and thereby undermine a U.S. rationale for war. A spokeswoman told AP that Bolton has no comment.

Oh, well it appears Bolton was right there, in the middle of one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on our country. 

Bolton is alleged by Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman to have played a role in encouraging the inclusion of statement that British Intelligence had determined Iraq attempted to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger in Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address.[40] These statements were claimed by critics of the President to be partly based on documents later found to be forged.[41]

Well, it turns out that Johnny boy is not an idiot at all, but the devil incarnate. He knew and he knows exactly what he was doing. Here is a man who has dedicated his life to destroying every single thing that I have ever believed in. Here are some wonderful past quotes from this fascist:

·       There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnbolton169120.html

·       We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_bolton.html

·       I don't do carrots.

·       I have never taken a class in international law.

·       Bolton actually says that the only error Bush really made was not giving the Iraqis 'a copy of the Federalist papers and saying, "Good luck."  http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/bolton-we-have-no-interest-in-iraqs-well-being/

And Bolton had been working for evil for years before this. During the Reagan and Bush 1 administrations he worked in the Justice Department.

His Justice Department position required him to advance Reagan administration positions, including opposition[citation needed] to financial reparations to Japanese-Americans held in World War II-era internment camps; the insistence of Reagan's executive privilege during William Rehnquist's chief justice confirmation hearings, when Congress asked for memos written by Rehnquist as a Nixon Justice Department official; the framing of a bill to control illegal immigration as an essential drug war measure; and, issues related to the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair.

See, the man has never done the proper thing in his entire lifetime; which is why you can usually find him on Fox News these days as well as WSJ.  And from these various threads I came to the conclusion that this fellow would not only wish America to declare full fledged war upon North Korea but Iran as well. This man would have us be in a continuous eternal war against all our enemies at once. And he was actually our Ambassador to the United Nations for 14 months, without the advice and consent of the Senate of course. A republican controlled Senate I might add.

The New York Times reports that President Bush recently held an off-the-record meeting with conservative writers. During the meeting, Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot asked Bush why he had diverted from the priorities of his first term. "That's ridiculous," Bush said. Boot then read from a Wall Street Journal op-ed by war hawk John Bolton in which Bolton said Bush's presidency is "in total intellectual collapse." Bush then lashed out at Bolton:

Bush grew more agitated at the mention of his own former senior diplomat. "Let me just say from the outset that I don't consider Bolton credible," the president said bitterly. Bush had brought Bolton into the top ranks of his administration, fought for Senate confirmation and, when lawmakers balked, defied critics to give the hawkish aide a recess appointment. "I spent political capital for him," Bush said, and look what he got in return.

Matthew Yglesias notes, "Of course Bush is right, Bolton isn't a credible thinker on national security issues. But Bolton is also right -- the inherent unworkability of the Bush doctrine has persuaded Bush to substantially abandon it in the waning days of his administration.  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/bush-bolton-credible/

See, Bolton is so goddamnably right wing that even w came to the point that he hates the guy.

So Sir Lancelot and Sir Gore, in saving the two ladies from the evil dragon, managed to piss off only one character in the entire realm.

SATAN HIMSELF.

 




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You missed one point Sir Dick of 10,000 Lakes. Good King Barack stood back and let Sir Lancelot accept all the praise. I do believe when this tale is told the good King has secured a friend and ally for life. Princess Hillery, too. What say you Sir Knight.

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You Bet Steve. I forgot really. Just noticed to typos but I was originally going to have Palidan the Moor, as reigning king in Arthur's Absence dispatch the two.

Barack looks damn gooooooood to me in all this and I think Al has been working on this for a long time.

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Even beyond that, Lancelot did not speak at the event when he brought them home; has not given any interviews about it. He is also staying out of the limelight on this, and looking more like a hero for it.

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Satan - you're goddamn right he is.

I hate that f*ckin' Bolton more than just about anyone on Earth. There were a lot of great things about the 80's, but when that hairy piece of shit showed up, I remember - I just lost it.

Evil incarnate.

It was like he couldn't stop himself from sticking his sick twisted mouth on everything. Otis Redding covers. Ray Charles. And wearing those goddamn shirts, he looked like frigging Fabio. I'm telling you Dick, it was like a sickness - like the goddamn swine flu spreading across the 80's, killing it off - ear vomit, coming out of my radio.

And can you believe it? That talking turdstool sold 53 million albums. 53 million. More than Tom Petty. More than Nirvana.

MORE THAN JOHNNY CASH.

Thing is though, you always learn something new here at TPM. I had no idea that Michael Bolton went to work for Bush. No wonder you call him Satan. Dude got around.

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There's rumours that he's goin' up on War Crimes, now that this has come to light. Monstrous.

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Oh god. I know I'm going to hate myself in the morning for saying this (but what else is new?)...but, about Michael Bolton: yes, the hair and shirt were foul Fabio; no, he should never have touched an Otis Redding or Ray Charles song; yes, 98% of his music was slow agony... yet, "Steel Bars," startingabout halfway through to the end, with the gospel back-up....well, that spoke southern.
Since you also abhor Clapton, how about sparing me future embarrassment with a list of acceptable, or even laudable music?

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hahahahahah. I tried to defend him toooo in the chat room Belle. hahahahahaa

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What was your defense, D?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2_GQlwxbI

This is the best I can do. hahahahahahah

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsLylyEoLDo

Really do not compare though.

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Agree there, DD. The Eagles. Always satisfyin'.

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Okay Q I have been thinkin and prayin about all this.

Now first, Michael cannot really be sittin on the dock of the bay in the same sense that Otis might have sat on the dock in the bay. I mean exactly.

When the tide goes away, there would be different feelings, let us say between the two.

I mean different 'public schools' an sit coms for that matter.

rush might come and say, hey, Otis is a racist for the the emotive semblances so to speak....

And Micheal well he might just be Michael...

But as far as sitting on the dock as they say, there might be a universal truth as come what may or as they say sittin on the dock of that bay that might be universal and rush may be missing all of this....since he, that is rush, might just break the dock in the bay as he watched the tide roll away as it were....

THE END

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Bolton just oversings everything. He picks up yet another soul song, and sings it like he was pounding nails - from verse one right on through. Otis Redding only had about a 5 year career, and I've seen him sing Try a Little Tenderness about 5 different ways just on YouTube, and all of 'em better than Bolton. But Bolton sells 53 million records, covering Redding, Ray Charles, Sam & Dave, Bill Withers, Percy Sledge, etc. It just got to bug me after a while. Why the hell was this guy, who simply could not and DID not sing as well as these black guys, selling so many records? An Otis version.

Even when I compared him to someone more one of his peers, like Rod Stewart, it wasn't even close. Rod Stewart did blue-eyed soul and big ballads too, but his years with the Faces showed the guy had a sense of humour, and his first few solo albums are bloody brilliant, even original. I donno, maybe it's just taste. I guess I prefer drunken laughing Rod and his mates, even for soul, to po-faced Bolton. Maybe I'm Amazed.

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I know this is not the worst thing a rock star, or anyone else ever did. But, speaking of drunken Rod and his mates in the 80's -- from an adjacent table, husband #1 and I once watched him stiff a starry-eyed girl for a round of drinks in a swank Manhattan bar where, even then, a glass of wine was $10. I heard Rod excuse himself to go to the "loo" then observed.... tick, tock.... that his return seemed inordinately delayed. Starry-eyed girl made every attempt to be cool until, through the window, one could see that a limo was pulling up. Rod appeared out of nowhere, outside, hopped in and took off. Leaving starry-eyed girl stunned, then splotched-faced and teary-eyed with embarrassment. Avoiding eye contact, she signaled for the check, the amount of which caused her the further embarrassment of not having enough cash, rooting through her bag for bills she hoped were buried in its depths. Whispered conference between waiter and bartender. Then the kind waiter took the cash from her table, saying gently :"What a generous tip, Miss. Thank you so much."
Maybe Rod sang this for her, later?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDI7tWhHf4&feature=related


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Just trying to work my way back to your post title, DD --"Sir Lancelot, Sir Gore and Damsels in Distress." Sorry for the tangent.

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Oh no, I love threads like this Belle, I told you before. This is Q's specialty and is sooooo much fun for me.

Or a friend will just show up and say: this is not on subject but........

This story of a millionaire gigolo is fascinating and comes as a direct result of the bolton joke. hahahaaha

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Dick, I cannot believe you ignored the best anti-Bolton video every made. John Bolton, Michael Bolton, doesn't matter. A video about pissing in the shower to save water is solid gold.

Don't go there.

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Why the hell was this guy, who simply could not and DID not sing as well as these black guys, selling so many records?

Because under the older system of selling music in which the power was with the distributors rather than the artists, what mattered was how much money there was for promotion and distribution. That decision was made by distributors for purpose of making a profit, not for distributing the best music.

A system like that will almost always prefer the reliable well-known money-maker who sings other people's known-in-advance-to-be-sellable music. That's marketing. Sell the predictable revenue raiser. If profit matters more than quality, that's the way it works. (Which is also why the current health care financing system does not and never will work - the trade-offs favor profit rather than quality health care.)

My explanation above is the best one I have found yet for why the best artists have been so frequently left out of much of the music market in favor of second-raters.

I'm not sure about the newer systems of sales and distribution, * but I think they will put a lot more emphasis on good music by the better artists.

* Hey, what do I know? I quit listening to popular music when Bob Dylan abandoned Folk Music by playing electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival - the traitor. But those four idiots from England had already crossed the pond and destroyed MY music. Of course, I then went to Germany for three years with the Army and couldn't understand German. When I got back I had major culture shock at the social changes in the early 70's. I was completely lost in and to the music world. I later heard Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and dropped back into music for album oriented Rock, but then music again went off the rails with Disco. Yeah, I missed a lot of good stuff and I know it now.

But business, public relations and marketing fascinates me. It drives what the American public does to an amazing degree. But the fallacies of that social system are becoming clear to the public now, as the wealthy conservative Oligarchs who fear they are losing control realize as they fight to defeat health care and the new cultural wave now coming in. That wave is symbolized by Obama and Hillary among others because they are so obvious, but they represent a sea change in American public values. We TPM readers know that the entire effort to defeat health care reform is money-orchestrated public relations and propaganda.

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Uh...er...you might be thinking of Michael Bolton, I mean this is John Bolton, but then again, WHO'S COUNTING.HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey LisB, do you know if Glenn Beck paid for the bullet?

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LOL, he wasn't shot, Dickon.....his head exploded from straining to hit those strangled high notes of his....hahahahahahaha.

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Seems even in Brazil, when people hear Bolton, they just get that FEELIN'.

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Cute frog.

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Here Quinn, this might help ring a bell, JOHN Bolton

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We are in desperate need of reeducation here Sal. hahahahahahah

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Sal I just brought your link to the chatroom
hhahaha its a hit

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Rage walrus is a perfect description for Bolton. But I have to disagree, there can only be one Satan, and while Bolton has always aspired to the position he's no Dick Cheney.

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Well Mark, the devil goes by many names in the Bible and the Qoran, I guess. Cheney is responsible because he ran the damn place for four or five years depending on the reivisionist history we are getting.

I mean this all makes w look more stupid than evil even though he was both, of course. hahahahahaha

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Hey somethings not real about this guy,how can you have black hair and a white mustache? Some trivia, want to know what old Evil Bol Weevil said was the "happiest moment" of his political career, it was the Bush's administrations decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court.He got 100 countries to sign up to Article 98 agreements, with the U.S. to exempt Americans from prosecution by the IC Court.So he is now safe in 100 countries no matter how small they are. Touche' toupe!

Welcome home ladies!

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Dondi, this guy is so evil, and makes me soooooo mad....

I must pause and laugh.

No more power. He is lost in aei and fox.

THANKS THE LORD (AND REALLY BLESSES HIMSELF)

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Got milk?

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hhahaha. That is it bwak. hahahhaahah

he was sipping on his milk hahahahahaha

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King John Ill

dd, you just crack me up all over the place.

Here is a ditty you'll like about former Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Bill Frist's turnaround from declaring Bolton's nomination dead to still viable.

The Doctor Turned Senator Bill

The doctor turned Senator Bill,
Said John Bolton's appointment was killed.
But then Bush buttonholed him,
Demanding John Bolton.
Now Bill claims that appointment's just ill.

(By Madeleine Begun Kane)


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HAHHHAAHA. Seashell, you are the only one that got my silly joke. Not really. You are the only one to be silly enough to admit it. hhahah

Great little ditty. I had forgotten how much I despised frist.

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You know I wrote something very pithy about this post and thought I put it up but now it's vanished! Da-aamn! Rec'd anyhows but that's lamesville.

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Happens to me too. I think I get lost in some tab and then I forget what I was doing.

hahashahaha

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Ask yourself what values John Bolton appears to be working to support. Everything he has done is to advance America as the single most powerful nation in the world.

He wanted Hussein forceably removed as head of state. He wants the same thing for Kim Jong Il - and just having him die of prostrate cancer does not demonstrate American superiority. His comment on the top ten floors of the UN and his general disdain for the UN is an indication that he does not think that America should share power with other nations.

He wants American world superiority, and American control over the rest to the world everywhere. No sharing. No democracy or diplomacy. It is all based on American superiority and American force. Don't even give the appearance of acknowledging the right of any other upstart nation to question America, let alone disobey.

What's the common thread? Bolton may not ever acknowledge the personal values is fights to advance, maybe not even to himself. But he'll say and do anything to make sure that America always appears to be the world top dog and that every other nation appears subordinate to America. He represents a lot of people who agree with him and support him.

John Bolton has the soul and deeply held values of an old-line Imperialist.

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No, you're wrong. John Bolton has no soul. Why does he even get airtime? I mean a RECESS appointee who could never get legitimately appointed?

There should be one show on tv with all the people who have no qualifications at all to just interview each other. See what their ratings turn out to be:

John Bolton, Lyn Cheney, Pat Buchanan, The other Cheney daughter who wrote a book only bought by her parents, G Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, Glen Beck...and on and on....

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I don't think we disagree. If the "soul" has any supernatural existence, then his is absent. Suppressed? Lost? Destroyed? Sold? Missing from the beginning? Withdrawn for misuse? Whatever, it's not there.

From a rational point of view I consider the "soul" to be nothing more than the set of values an individual has been socialized to accept. I do not recognize either the supernatural or any traditional concept of "soul" since by definition they are beyond human understanding. By my definition, the fact that I can identify his values is all the soul any of us will ever be able to recognize and rationally discuss.

Since he is a front man for a lot of others like himself, he has to be the most extreme of the bunch. He gets rewarded well for his extremism, which encourages his extremism. The crowd usually gets the leaders it wants, and to keep the job the leader has to conform. I'd guess that the crowd he represents is running scared.

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It is old time imperialism. There were Brits and other Europeans who did hold similar beliefs.

I guess I just see most modern day fascists--corporate fronts--as there to make their own fortunes in the end.

Chris Matthews who usually raises my ire for pretending to be fair, Interrupted someone calling AEI a 'think tank'. "Why you think AEI is a think tank." And he started laughing.

Pat Robertson actually used his prayer show to show his animosity toward a law that would tax 'off-shore' corporations. I was alone of course when I heard it but I could not stop laughing.

Your definition of 'soul' is of great interest to me Richard.

Thank you for the well thought out comments for sure.

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Actually, I hadn't thought out that definition of soul until CVille Dem called me on it, and I went back to see how I had used the term. I respect CVille Dem and search out his comments.

I find it amazing what can happen to clarify my thoughts as I start writing.

You are quite right that Bolton is displaying old time imperialist attitudes. But wasn't British imperialism essentially the government response to following the trading organizations around the world and bailing them out with (mostly seapower) military when they got into trouble? The companies like the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company essentially set up to make some people wealthy.

The government needed wealthy companies to tax to support the military because otherwise the King of England was dependent on his Barons for soldiers. The King France had already broken his Aristocrats as threats to his rule, and the King of England had the same problem.

The various trading companies were private/public partnerships to expand trade and maintain large standing military forces after military capabilities grew to where the biggest standing force military usually defeated Mercenaries (The big military lesson of the 30 Years War) and governments had to centralize to support the largest possible military forces.

The corporatists haven't changed much since then. We just know more about what they are doing now, except that they seem to have decided that the government should not have as much power over them as in the past.

Somehow with the growth of industrialism and truly big business, they have forgotten that every corporation is licensed and regulated by government to provide benefit for the nation. Even organized crime depends on government licensed or sponsored organizational structures to exist, although the actual criminal activities are generally handled in unapproved ways. The apparent exception I have noticed is that rebellions against governments recently have been allying themselves with or creating their own criminal organizations and providing their sponsorship to the criminal organizations in exchange for permission to operate and protection.

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Thanks for the compliment. Just wanted to let you know that CVille Dem is a lady -- my name is Jan. How do you do?

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I loves the ladies. hahahahahaha

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I'm delighted to know you a bit better. I assume, of course, that CVille means Charlottesville, VA or something similar.

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It does indeed -- Charlottesville (the longest city name in the US!). Where are you from?

PS, when I said "You're wrong, Bolton has no soul," I meant it as a rhetorical device; not a criticism. Your entire post was one I agreed with, and we most certainly have similar opinions on John Bolton. I was just looking for a segue to bash him a little more!

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Bash him some more. He rates it. Along with War Crimes trials.

I do tend to get rather pedantic. Sorry. Don't take me too seriously. I do get worse here on DDay's posts because he encourages my worst excesses. Oh, and because working out the logic of how things work historically, psychologically and sociologically is a fascinating set of puzzles.

So I'll just blame DDay. It's easier than taking personal responsibility.

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